Part of me feels the need to explain what has already been talked to death, and with the way forums generally work I can easily say this will get buried, unseen, and forgotten, by both consumer and Blizzard alike.
Blizzard, this justice is insincere. It does nothing. There are no amount of words to begin to describe how little this trade impacts the Kaldorei story, but for the sake of all those that are angry, both on our side and your side, I will try.
To start, we Kaldorei loves the burning of Teldrassil. It was an emotionally impacted event that rallied anyone with a shred of night eleven pride to take up their weapons, jump in to War Mode, and shred any enemy we saw to pieces. Roleplayers had massive events. PvPers ran through the forests looking for targets. Everyone scrambled to be apart of this epic story you were working so meticulously to create.
Where it failed was Sylvanas.
Week two of the War of Thorns saw 10 minutes of content, 4 of which was a cutscene where all suspicions were confirmed. It was Sylvanas. After the teases it was her whether you thought you had tricked us or not.
Now, that is all said and good; it sparked retaliation, after all. Wrong. The Kaldorei have no interest in Lordaeron. Ever. Even then there was hope. Hope for vengeance. Yet… It fell, flat on its face with the cries of the Alliance spouting bias this and bias that. It stems from the fact that it wasn’t even the Alliance that broke the city. It was Sylvanas. She got away, again, fueling more hatred, more animosity, but all in due time.
Come to Dazal’alor, the raid, 8.1. To say it is a 1:1 trade of Teldrassil is an insult at best. Again, another nation with the lack of Kaldorei interest, with the reason for invasion being to keep an ally away from the Horde. Yet, Dazal’alor isn’t razed, salted,and apart upon, desecrated like the lands of the Kaldorei. We take no slaves, no prisoner… We don’t even accomplish what we set out. How is total anhilation the equivilant of failed hostile take over? It isn’t.
Justice for Teldrassil will not be achieved until it is Delayrn herself who slides her sword through dead heart of Sylvanas, laying to rest the Lich King incarnate. Not Tyrande. Not Malfurion. Delayrn Summermoon, the tragic character turned against her own people.
This rant is long, I am tired, but the truth of the matter is that people are livid, but we understand an equal trade doesn’t need to be made.
Instead, we are calling out for things to make sense, to stop being trampled on or called incompetent by the lackluster story. A story which, we all know, isn’t over, but as with all writing, if we don’t enjoy where it is leading us we would rather just find something else compelling to read.